ggplot (continued)

Using Colors

  1. Aesthetics
  1. Colors that are attractive - large geoms (fills) - pale colors - small geoms(lines,points) - bright colors
  2. Colors that highlight elements - pale, grey to de-emphasize - bright or saturated colors to emphasize
  3. Colors that are visible to the color blind
  4. Colors that convert well to black and white
  1. Information content
  1. Discrete scale
  1. Continuous scale
  1. Use color information within and between graphs
  1. show color names, hex in base R
  2. show color schemes in colorbrewer

using alpha transparency for histograms

## 'data.frame':    200 obs. of  2 variables:
##  $ v1 : num  -0.0306 1.4022 0.166 2.5987 -1.1781 ...
##  $ lab: Factor w/ 2 levels "Control","Treatment": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...

Tour of color palettes

Wes Anderson palettes
## $BottleRocket1
## [1] "#A42820" "#5F5647" "#9B110E" "#3F5151" "#4E2A1E" "#550307" "#0C1707"
## 
## $BottleRocket2
## [1] "#FAD510" "#CB2314" "#273046" "#354823" "#1E1E1E"
## 
## $Rushmore1
## [1] "#E1BD6D" "#EABE94" "#0B775E" "#35274A" "#F2300F"
## 
## $Rushmore
## [1] "#E1BD6D" "#EABE94" "#0B775E" "#35274A" "#F2300F"
## 
## $Royal1
## [1] "#899DA4" "#C93312" "#FAEFD1" "#DC863B"
## 
## $Royal2
## [1] "#9A8822" "#F5CDB4" "#F8AFA8" "#FDDDA0" "#74A089"
## 
## $Zissou1
## [1] "#3B9AB2" "#78B7C5" "#EBCC2A" "#E1AF00" "#F21A00"
## 
## $Darjeeling1
## [1] "#FF0000" "#00A08A" "#F2AD00" "#F98400" "#5BBCD6"
## 
## $Darjeeling2
## [1] "#ECCBAE" "#046C9A" "#D69C4E" "#ABDDDE" "#000000"
## 
## $Chevalier1
## [1] "#446455" "#FDD262" "#D3DDDC" "#C7B19C"
## 
## $FantasticFox1
## [1] "#DD8D29" "#E2D200" "#46ACC8" "#E58601" "#B40F20"
## 
## $Moonrise1
## [1] "#F3DF6C" "#CEAB07" "#D5D5D3" "#24281A"
## 
## $Moonrise2
## [1] "#798E87" "#C27D38" "#CCC591" "#29211F"
## 
## $Moonrise3
## [1] "#85D4E3" "#F4B5BD" "#9C964A" "#CDC08C" "#FAD77B"
## 
## $Cavalcanti1
## [1] "#D8B70A" "#02401B" "#A2A475" "#81A88D" "#972D15"
## 
## $GrandBudapest1
## [1] "#F1BB7B" "#FD6467" "#5B1A18" "#D67236"
## 
## $GrandBudapest2
## [1] "#E6A0C4" "#C6CDF7" "#D8A499" "#7294D4"
## 
## $IsleofDogs1
## [1] "#9986A5" "#79402E" "#CCBA72" "#0F0D0E" "#D9D0D3" "#8D8680"
## 
## $IsleofDogs2
## [1] "#EAD3BF" "#AA9486" "#B6854D" "#39312F" "#1C1718"